CLOUD CULTURE: THE PROMISE AND THE THREAT

Facebook, google, twitter, what effect will they have on culture? This essay explores the pros and cons, acknowledging we are in the early stage of the web and its potential.

Our interests as citizens and consumers will be best served by their being a rich variety of cultural clouds: public and private, social and voluntary, global and very local, cosmopolitan and nationalist.

So how do clouds fit in? Read on as Leadbetter interogates notions of our digital futures.